East Butterwick, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Butterwick, East, a village and a township in Bottesford and Messingham parishes, Lincolnshire, on the river Trent, 3 miles from Althorpe station on the M.S. & L.R. Post town, Brigg. Acreage of township, 1034; population, 274. There are a mission church, erected in 1884, and Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Poor Law union | Glandford-Brigg | |
Wapentake | Manley |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for East Butterwick from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Butterwick, East)
Maps
Online maps of East Butterwick are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online: